Great news!

We were in the process of debugging JBPM trying to find the source of the bug ... and maybe days away from the solution ...

Is there any bug report in Jira and/or a patch we can apply without having to wait for the next release so we can quick-patch our systems?


Alberto R. Galdo
argaldo@gmail.com


On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 13:09, Marco Rietveld <mrietvel@redhat.com> wrote:

Hi Alberto,

This is a bug that has been fixed in jBPM. It had to do with lazy initialization of a JPAProcessInstanceManager field.

We'll be releasing a new jBPM version sometime soon (synchronous with Drools, I think). The bug is fixed in there.

Regards,
Marco

03/08/2012 11:32 AM, Alberto R. Galdo:
Hi, 

  We're running an application that uses Drools + JBPM 5 + Drools integration our set-up can be seen as: 

  Some rule fires and creates a JBPM process ( a fact gets inserted into drools using "kcontext.getKnowledgeRuntime().startProcess("testProcess")" ). We have a problem with the persistence of this processes. Persistence is implemented with JPA and JTA. Our application runs with fireUntilHalt() and when a process is launched from the consequence of any of the rules the persistence of the process fails. If the application runs with fireAllRules(), the persistence works like a charm.
  
  The error shown is as follow:
  
  Exception in thread "Thread-5" Exception executing consequence for rule "Run Process" in com.sample: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.drools.runtime.rule.impl.DefaultConsequenceExceptionHandler.handleException(DefaultConsequenceExceptionHandler.java:39)
at org.drools.common.DefaultAgenda.fireActivation(DefaultAgenda.java:1101)
at org.drools.common.DefaultAgenda.fireNextItem(DefaultAgenda.java:1029)
at org.drools.common.DefaultAgenda.fireUntilHalt(DefaultAgenda.java:1229)
at org.drools.common.AbstractWorkingMemory.fireUntilHalt(AbstractWorkingMemory.java:754)
at org.drools.common.AbstractWorkingMemory.fireUntilHalt(AbstractWorkingMemory.java:730)
at org.drools.command.runtime.rule.FireUntilHaltCommand$1.run(FireUntilHaltCommand.java:50)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.jbpm.persistence.processinstance.JPAProcessInstanceManager.addProcessInstance(JPAProcessInstanceManager.java:44)
at org.jbpm.process.instance.AbstractProcessInstanceFactory.createProcessInstance(AbstractProcessInstanceFactory.java:36)
at org.jbpm.process.instance.ProcessRuntimeImpl.startProcess(ProcessRuntimeImpl.java:182)
at org.jbpm.process.instance.ProcessRuntimeImpl.createProcessInstance(ProcessRuntimeImpl.java:154)
at org.jbpm.process.instance.ProcessRuntimeImpl.startProcess(ProcessRuntimeImpl.java:135)
at org.jbpm.process.instance.ProcessRuntimeImpl.startProcess(ProcessRuntimeImpl.java:130)
at org.drools.common.AbstractWorkingMemory.startProcess(AbstractWorkingMemory.java:1074)
at org.drools.impl.StatefulKnowledgeSessionImpl.startProcess(StatefulKnowledgeSessionImpl.java:301)
at com.sample.Rule_Run_Process.defaultConsequence(Rule_Run_Process.java:9)
at com.sample.Rule_Run_ProcessDefaultConsequenceInvoker.evaluate(Unknown Source)
at org.drools.common.DefaultAgenda.fireActivation(DefaultAgenda.java:1091)
... 6 more
The problem is in this function:
public void addProcessInstance(ProcessInstance processInstance) {
        ProcessInstanceInfo processInstanceInfo = new ProcessInstanceInfo( processInstance, this.kruntime.getEnvironment() );
        ProcessPersistenceContext context 
            = ((ProcessPersistenceContextManager) this.kruntime.getEnvironment()
                    .get( EnvironmentName.PERSISTENCE_CONTEXT_MANAGER ))
                    .getProcessPersistenceContext();
        // @PrePersist added to ProcessInstanceInfo because of this
        context.persist( processInstanceInfo );
        ((org.jbpm.process.instance.ProcessInstance) processInstance).setId( processInstanceInfo.getId() );
        processInstanceInfo.updateLastReadDate();
        internalAddProcessInstance(processInstance);
    }
We think after that persist sentence, the entity manager would have to run a flush sentence for the process instance is inserted into database and get the ID.
Greets.


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